A01=Alan Helms
Author_Alan Helms
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Product details
- ISBN 9780816642687
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Apr 2003
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An insider’s account of gay high society in pre-Stonewall New York City-now back in print!
Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship because of his sexual orientation, he soon became an object of desire in a gay underground scene frequented by, among many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein, and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid and sensitive account, Helms describes the business of being a sex object and its psychological and physical toll.
Alan Helms is professor of literature at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
